Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Cill Urlaí, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cill Urlaí
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.85212, -10.30688
- SMR number
- KE088-037----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located in the SW corner of a steeply sloping field. Remnants of an oval-shaped hut of rough construction with a .9m wide entrance at N. Stone collapse fills the interior and abuts the external wall-face. D: 3.9m x 2.3m. H: .6m. T: .8m.
Adjacent at S, a roughly circular-shaped mound of stone collapse with protruding slabs at its centre and along the S side. Possibly a collapsed hut (KE088-037001-). Overall diameter: 4.3m x 3.6m. Old collapsed field walls and a dense scattering of loose stone lie within this quadrant of the field. This may be the 'graves site' noted by O'Malley, though he erroneously places the site one field to the N (OPW, 1937). It may also be the location of the square hut 'near Coolaconan' sketched by Lynch (1902a, 55).
The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 1331. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 1 August 2013
Nearby in the register
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.